Convergent Trading w/FIO – An Afternoon With Morad Askar (aka FuturesTrader71)

“We heard about it on a Thursday afternoon, that they were looking for traders in Chicago, at the Chicago Board of Trade. A new firm that was funded and had seats and was looking for prop traders and then I think on Friday morning, the very next day at 7:00 a.m. we jumped into a car and drove up to Chicago from Boca which is about a 22-hour Drive. We drove up to Chicago and on Monday morning we were basically banging on doors and looking for a position within the firm we know about and others.“

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Topics Discussed

Presented by: Morad Askar, topics include:

• Trading while at University
• Leaving the corporate world to join an equities arcade
• SOES opportunities vanish after 9/11 and with changing policies
• The move to Chicago and the Chicago Board of Trade
• Trading as a futures prop newbie
• Making the turn to profitability
• Leaving a prop shop to start one
• Switching from scalping to context trading
• My winding path to the current moment